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RUSSIAN-JAPANESE TRADE has flopped so far. Though Russia and Japan signed an $80 million trade agreement last summer, year-long negotiations have produced only $9,000,000 worth of firm contracts, mostly for Russian coal, lumber, manganese and chrome, in exchange for Japanese wire rope, tugboats and fishing vessels. Reasons for the failure: high Red prices (20% higher than international levels), uncertain delivery and complex payment systems...
...Education has allocated more than $30,000,000 to the attainment of its major objectives. The largest single portion of the Fund's resources has been concentrated on the problem of improving the quality of teaching in secondary schools and colleges. Through two fellowship programs, the Fund has sponsored year-long leaves for more than 1200 selected high-school and college teachers, in order to encourage them to broaden their own knowledge and teaching experience...
...schools, preoccupied with the "average" child, neglecting the training of uncommonly bright children? Schoolteacher Katherine P. Chambers raises the question after a year-long study of 341 "gifted" (I.Q.s of 135 and up) men and women who attended St. Louis public schools during the '20s. Among her findings...
Appearing in a 500-page document mailed yesterday to the faculty, these proposals grew out of a year-long study sponsored by the Ford Foundation to examine the position of behavioral science at Harvard. The report concerns nearly every phase of the fields of anthropology, psychology, history, government, economics, and social relations...
...make the changes he wants, Curtice can also find corner-cutting tricks. When he first saw sketches of a Buick that carried the fender line back into the body for the first time, he did not wait for the year-long process of changing dies. Instead, he devised a method of bolting extra panels of metal on to the old body to get the new style into his showrooms as quickly as possible. While looking over one recent model, Curtice spotted a flaw in its lines, was told that it was far too late to do anything about it. Said...